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Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley. The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube.
The channel has three videos that do not follow the channel's standards, featuring instead internal references or jokes. One of them, titled "tmpRkRL85" (presumably standing for "Temporary Rick Roll 1985" or "Template Rickroll 1985"), plays normally until the red rectangle becomes a silhouette of Rick Astley dancing (referencing the Rickrolling phenomenon) in the second half of the video.
The band invited Astley to join them as they performed the song in the style of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". [25] In August 2022, the CSAA Insurance Group, an insurer for the American Automobile Association, released a commercial featuring Rick Astley, with scenes recreated from the original "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video. [26]
However, many fans would beg to differ — and there’s plenty of recent evidence of Astley’s coolness. For instance, six years ago, a YouTube video of him playing the drums while singing AC/DC ...
Astley responded with a clapping emoji, proving he opened the link expecting to find a sweet photo of a fan and instead ended up watching himself in a cheesy ’80s music video Reddit Rickrolls ...
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In 2008, all links to videos on the main page were redirected to Rick Astley's music video "Never Gonna Give You Up", a prank known as "rickrolling". [158] [159] The next year, when clicking on a video on the main page, the whole page turned upside down, which YouTube claimed was a "new layout". [160]
At the first, on April 1, 2008, all video links on the front page were redirected to Rick Astley's music video "Never Gonna Give You Up", a prank known as "rickrolling". The other gags are covered in YouTube § April Fools Gags. In June 2008, video annotations were introduced. Users were able to add text boxes and speech bubbles at any desired ...